Sjoerd Kuyper

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sjoerd Kuyper
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 6, 1952(1952-03-06)
Age	72
Birthplace	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	North Holland
Horoscope	Pisces

Sjoerd Kuyper Biography

Sjoerd Kuyper is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 6, 1952 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.

Sjoerd Kuyper (Amsterdam, 6 March 1952) is a Dutch poetry and prose writer of adult, children’s and youth books, theatre, TV series, film scripts and lyrics. His best-known works are the film Het zakmes (The Pocket-knife), the series of books about the toddler Robin, the poem Mensen met koffers (People with Suitcases), the lyrics Hallo wereld (Hello World) and the youth novels Hotel De Grote L (The Big L hotel) and Bizar (Bizarre). His books have been published in fifteen countries. He has won, among other things, six Zilveren Griffels and a Gouden Griffel for Robin en God (Robin and God). In 2012 he was awarded the Theo Thijssen Prijs for his entire oeuvre and in 2014 he was appointed Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau for his merits in Dutch literature at home and abroad.

With socialist grandparents and parents, the work of Sjoerd Kuyper is not only characterised by poetic language, but also by social involvement. It started with his first publication, a poem in the Brielse school newspaper, the pacifist Thoughts of an ex-general, followed by NATO Blues, which he sang with friends in the shopping streets of Alkmaar and on TV in the late 1960s, and in MaGier and the MiddelMan (MaVulture and the MiddleMan) (1984) the evil aspects of the faith were denounced. The anger never disappeared. In fact, it was getting bigger and bigger. In his work but also elsewhere, as was the case with Astrid Lindgren and Miep Diekmann.

Sjoerd Kuyper Net Worth

Sjoerd Kuyper is one of the richest Writer from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sjoerd Kuyper 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sjoerd Kuyper was born on 6 March 1952 in Amsterdam-East. At the age of two, he moved with his parents to the village of Berkhout, near Hoorn, where his father became a teacher. Sjoerd has described the seven years he spent there in his series of books about the toddler Robin. In 1956, his sister was born: Trudy.

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He gave up his studies and became a full-time writer: editorials and poetry reviews for De Nieuwe Linie, articles in de VPRO Gids, reviews on puppetry in De Volkskrant. He translated books written by J.M. Synge and Jamake Highwater, among others, and wrote his first children’s stories for the radio programme De Ko de Boswachtershow. In 1975 Margje and he moved to a houseboat in Neck, Wijdewormer.

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Sofiane Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Sjoerd Kuyper celebrates birthday on March 6 of every year.

And he did interviews, together with his friend Johan Diepstraten, first with young prose writers like Maarten ‘t Hart, Doeschka Meijsing and Jan Siebelink, later with young poets like H.H. ter Balkt, Frank Koenegracht, Gerrit Komrij, Hans Tentije and Willem Wilmink. They were published in De Nieuwe Linie and De Tijd, and later collected in Het Nieuwe Proza (1978) and Dichters (1980). The friendship with Johan would later lead to a youth novel written together, De verborgen steeg (The Hidden Alley) (1986), which was awarded a prize by many children’s juries. Johan died in 1999, at the age of forty-eight.